Archive for: card
- February 11, 2011 6:30 pm
Cheaper, more generous options and AT&T aren’t usually said in the same sentence. Generally speaking, AT&T has a habit of charging more for less. But an upcoming change to their LaptopConnect plans is a song of a different tune. “A well placed source” of BGR says the current $35/200MB and $60/5GB plan are being replaced with a $30/3GB and $50/5GB offerings. It’s still insanely overpriced for a pittance of data, but it’s better nonetheless. Now if only we could see some carriers be so generous as to give us *Gasps!* 10-20GB of data for an affordable price (read: ~$30-$40 per month). We can dream the increasingly impossible dream…
Look for the new changes to drop this Sunday or Monday according to the source. Anyone enticed by the new plans and pricing? Or is it still too much of the same?
The aging SD-card spec gets pushed higher and higher with each passing year. A couple of years ago, the big thing was SDXC and it’s promised 2TB capacities. But in 2011, we’re on to bigger and better things. Built on top of current SDHC and SDXC hardware, the new UHS-II spec aims to push transfer rates higher with additional rows of pins on the cards themselves. Speaking of transfer rates, we’re hearing a stout 312MB/s is the goal. Even if we see half of that, it’s still a lot faster than what’s currently possible.
In other flash memory news, SanDisk has started offering a 128GB Compact Flash memory card. This power Core controller and a UDMA-7-equipped slab of plastic features 100MB/s transfer rates as well as a heart-stopping $1,499 price tag. Then again, the type of crowd who needs such luxuries shouldn’t have too hard of a time finding the spare change required.
- December 14, 2010 9:53 pm
We here at Gadgetsteria may have a thing or two for bleeding edge, expensive, fast, flashy computer hardware. But we can certainly appreciate more meager silicon bits. Whether it be price or lack of any real need for earth splitting power, the custom PC market can certainly cater to whatever price point you fall in to. On that note, Colorful Technology has revealed their new single-slot Nvidia GTS 450 graphics card. The big selling point here is of course the single-slot design which means less room taken up inside of your case. For those of you with mid-tower or small cases, this slim design is especially important.
Regarding hardware specifics, the card officially goes by the name of “iGame450-1024M Buri-SLIM” and features 192 CUDA cores clocked at 783MHz and 1GB of GDDR5 memory humming along at 3608MHz. Connecting your favorite monitor(s) is made possible by (2) dual-DVI and (1) mini-HDMI ports.
Currently, pricing and release information is unlisted. Check back soon for more info.
- November 30, 2010 6:10 am
As cameras grow in megapixel count, gain video recording capabilities, and life’s demands request more and more pictures, the memory cards that store said memories are pushed to their limits. Though, storage space isn’t really a concern. Numbers for such things have exploded over the last few years to the point that anyone can pick up more memory or storage than they’ll probably ever use for photos. But what good is a 2TB memory card if it transfers at a pokey 10-100MB/s?
Nikon, Sandisk, and Sony are coming to our aide, as they have started work on a next-gen Compact Flash standard that would see speeds raised from 100MB/s to nearly 600MB/s. A 6x increasing in transfer speeds could certainly give hardcore photographers a nice chunk of their day back that is currently wasted on waiting for images to transfer. The only downside of course, is that the new standard won’t be backwards compatible with existing Compact Flash technology.
For now, the wait looks pretty long. The Compact Flash Association is just beginning to receive the trio’s ideas and plans. From there begins many, many months of testing and planning. But if it brings about dramatically improved Compact Flash transfer speeds, I personally don’t mind the wait.
- November 13, 2010 2:36 pm
LTE phones may be the only thing we phone junkies think of, but there’s plenty of other good uses for those wireless waves floating through our heads. Take for instance, these two new LTE modems coming to Verizon. The LG VL600 and Pantech UML290 should be available for sale relatively soon to meet Verizon’s deadline of having useable LTE in 38 cities by the end of the year. As far as the hardware goes, the LG VL600 is a dual-mode CDMA/LTE unit while the UML290 by Pantech claims “global” compatibility.
For the road warriors of the bunch, having the power and speed of LTE in your hands is a god-send. Keep checking back…
- October 21, 2010 10:35 pm
AT&T may not have a very large LTE network in place until later in 2011, but that doesn’t mean preparations aren’t already underway.
The memo snippet you see above is supposedly circulating around AT&T stores as we speak, detailing to reps how to handle the new LTE sim cards that are rolling out. One particularly interesting tidbit is that during the transition from 3G to LTE sim, a claimed 8…8 variations will be employed. Pretty crazy.
Any AT&T reps care to share — off the record and anonymously of course…
- September 27, 2010 6:42 am
‘Tis that time of year again — Graphics card maker (among other things) AMD is set to unleash a flurry of new GPU hardware to lead us into the winter months and holiday season. For over a year now, their 58xx series in particular has been doing phenomenally well thanks to the ever-sinking prices and lower heatput-per-watt when compared to Nvidia’s finest. However, Nvidia’s latest update did turn up the heat (literally) on AMD once a few driver updates came out. Now, AMD’s 58xx series aren’t so speedy anymore.
Introducing, the AMD 67xx series graphics cards based off of the “Barts” 40-nm architecture. If this “mid-range” fodder isn’t to your liking, calm down. There’s plenty to glean off this new information. Namely, the 67xx cards are actually quite close in performance (on paper anyway) to the current top-of-the-line 58xx series cards. So we can all assume that the upcoming 68xx series cards will be a rather large step up — more-so than some people believed would come from this “minor” update.
Cayman/68xx series cards shouldn’t follow too far behind their more moderately paced siblings. Anyone getting excited for new AMD GPU’s? Larger shot after the jump…
**Due remember, these aren’t final stats. As such, things could change before the official launch.
- September 9, 2010 9:50 am
If rendering the world in the fastest time possible is the sole goal of your existence, AMD has something they would like to show you — the FirePro 9800. An obvious step up from the old king, the 8800, the 9800 is a counter to the latest business class offerings from Nvidia, namely the Quadro 5000 and 6000 cards. Most notably, Nvidia’s latest cards are faster than AMD’s good ‘ol 8800. As such, they couldn’t let the competitor trample all over them in the benchmark arena.
Constant who’s-who bragging over who has the faster card aside, what story do the actual specs tell? You be the judge: Built with the Cypress GPU, 1600 stream processors, 147.2 GB/s memory bandwidth, larger 4GB memory buffer, and more DisplayPort connections –6. All of that can be you or your companies property for a cool $3,499. Woah! More than twice the price than the old v8800. Let’s hope the upcoming benchmark results justify the substantial price increase. Keep checking back with HotHardware for the goods…
- September 6, 2010 3:35 pm
AMD’s 5xxx series of graphics cards made their debut in the 2nd half of 2009. Since then, they’ve completely padded their GPU lineup from top to bottom. Nvidia, meanwhile, took a while to match their DirectX11 offering with that of their own. And when they did, they were overpriced for the rather slight difference in performance as well as putting off copious amounts of heat. Prices have dropped, however, making Nvidia’s DirectX11 cards worth another look. Not to mention, Nvidia has hit a sweet price-to-performance balance with the GTX 460 cards. In SLI, these cards are pretty awesome and can keep up with CrossFireX’d 5850′s and 5870′s — impressive for sure!
How will AMD respond? We already know the 6xxx series is due out in some form before 2010 rolls into 2011. With that said, Chiphell has leaked several pictures claimed to be the upcoming 6300 and 6870 AMD GPU’s. Spec-wise we don’t have anything to chew on. But at this point I’m more than wiling to simply oogle and drool. Hop in for a few more shots…
